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Driven Apart: How sprawl is lengthening our commutes and why misleading mobility measures are making things worse

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Driven Apart: How sprawl is lengthening our commutes and why misleading mobility measures are making things worse

This report by CEOs for Cities, “unveils the real reason Americans spend so much time in traffic and offers a dramatic critique of the 25 year old industry standard created by the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report (UMR) – often used to justify billions of dollars in expenditures to build new roads and highways.”

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Driven to the Brink: How the Gas Price Spike Popped the Housing Bubble and Devalued the Suburbs

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Driven to the Brink: How the Gas Price Spike Popped the Housing Bubble and Devalued the Suburbs

Dangerous by Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths (and Making Great Neighborhoods)

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